Issue Aug 09-15 2023: On the second and last day of the Amazon Summit, member countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) released a collective communique reaffirming their commitment to preserving wildlife and reducing deforestation.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: Organized crime runs amok across the Amazonian tri-border between Colombia, Brazil, and Peru, with gangs clashing for territorial dominance in a region valuable for both its illicit trade routes and illegally harvested natural resources.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: Firebrand presidential candidate Javier Milei, winner of the Argentina 2023 primaries, has made no secret of his disdain for the Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA), promising that he would “close,” “eliminate,” and “blow up” the institution should he come to office.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: The assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio marks the country’s accelerating transition to a failed state.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: Supermarket chain Walmart has opened the first green hydrogen system in Chile.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: The Petro administration in Colombia began 2022 with the country’s highest rates of negative humanitarian impact in the past ten years.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: As a cognitive system, Chile has yet to come to terms with the grief—and in other ways personal loss—that came from the rupture of democracy of September 11, 1973.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: The fight against corruption, care for nature, and social development are part of the government plan presented by Movimiento Semilla.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: Despite the government’s launch of the Novo Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) to help the economy take off, specialists say that it is still too early to bet on sustainable growth.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a decree on August 4, 2023, to resume electrical interconnection between Brazil and Venezuela and energy exchanges with Argentina and Uruguay.